This was for a special event at their base in Diespeker Wharf, Islington, on the banks of the Regent Canal, a listed building and former Victorian timber mill, which has been innovatively restored and converted into a contemporary workspace and HQ for the practice.
The event - PTEa's first projection project and the latest in a series of transformations staged at Diespeker Wharf - celebrated the building as a local landmark, reflecting its history and location, its many previous uses and occupants and its current owners, PTE architects.
First Ashton storyboarded a script, and once that was signed off by PTEa, worked on producing all the artwork with Paul Mumford, which took about two weeks. The artwork was 'placed' using reference points taken from a photo survey - a traditional method of producing large format projected images.
The video footage was then stored in a Green Hippo Hippotizer media server, which was used to do all the necessary keystoning, masking and other corrections required to match the camera lens to that of the projector, and the precision mapping of the images onto the building.
The hardware - including a sound system - was supplied by QED. The projection and control system was engineered by Richard Porter, and sound artist Karen Monid was commissioned to create a bespoke soundscape to accompany the visuals, which was highly effective.
(Jim Evans)
